MAAT: the Ministry of Social Solidarity dissipates official documents submitted to obtain the ministry's approval to implement a project since December 2014.

Maat: The Ministry of Solidarity has squandered official documents that we submitted to request approval to implement a project since December 2014.

MAAT will file a complaint to the Attorney General to put an end to the ministry's entities illegal practices

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Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights expresses its deep dissatisfaction with the practices of the Ministry of Social Solidarity, which affirms the arbitrary approach in dealing with Egyptian civil society organizations, and the Ministry’s practices confirm that we are facing a government administration that does not differentiate between a registered organization and an unregistered organization, and does not respect the law that Organizations invite to register under his banner.

On December 30, 2014, the Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights submitted to the Department of Social Solidarity in Dar Al-Salam with a Board of Trustees report containing a request for approval to implement the “Universal Periodic Review as a Tool for Improving Public Policies” project, accompanied by all the required documents. Indeed, the completed application was listed under No. 7474 and 30 12 / In the records of the administration, and it was sent to the Solidarity Directorate in Cairo and received it with an incoming number 463 on February 15, 2015, and in violation of the spirit and text of Law 84 of 2002, which specifies a period of 60 days for obtaining the response of the Ministry of Social Solidarity regarding requests for accepting funding, the institution has not yet received any response From the ministry despite the passage of nearly seven months after submitting the application.

And by asking the Foundation repeatedly in the Ministry’s general office about the fate of the project, the permanent response from the ministry’s employees over the past months was, “We are waiting for security approval.” The disaster was that the Foundation was surprised in July 2015 that the project had completely disappeared, as both the Social Solidarity Directorate in Cairo denied. The Central Administration of Associations at the Ministry said that it had received a request from the Foundation regarding this, which prompted the Foundation to file an official complaint from the Minister of Social Solidarity (registered under No. 3 on July 14, 2015), but we have not yet reaped the silence about this disaster.

In view of this, Maat decided to use its legal right and will submit an official communication to the Attorney General accusing the Ministry of Social Solidarity agencies of intentionally dispelling the official papers related to the project, deliberately obstructing its implementation and evading expressing its position, either with approval or justified refusal.

The Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights has been working for seven years under the umbrella of Law 84 of 2002, and holds the position of chairing the Egyptian national network for the Anna Lindh Foundation by election for two consecutive terms, and has implemented dozens of development programs in most parts of the country, and it has strong cooperation with international international mechanisms for the protection of human rights. All those who dealt with it - including the Ministry of Social Solidarity - attest to its integrity and transparency, and it has previously cooperated with several international and governmental organizations to serve development issues in Egypt.

While the Foundation expresses its great astonishment at the position of the Ministry of Social Solidarity, it calls on the Minister of Social Solidarity and the Prime Minister to intervene to save national institutions committed to the law from the intransigence of the Ministry of Social Solidarity, and the Foundation also affirms that despite its efforts by all legal methods to change the current law in violation of the constitution, It is committed to working within its framework and using its tools to set an example in exhausting all available means to convey its voice to the decision-maker in Egypt, and considers the judicial escalation against the Ministry as a step in the path of peaceful and legal struggle to achieve this goal.